Compiled by Servius G.
In light of recent reports about street organizations in Los Angeles making efforts to forge unity in the aftermath of Nipsey Hussle’s death, we wanted to share a few resources for folks to engage with which discuss the history of what people today call “gangs” and their potential to serve as vehicles for mass organization among poor and working-class New Afrikan peoples.
- L.A. Gangs Have Called A Historic Truce To Honor Nipsey Hussle (Video)
- Nipsey Hussle on colonialism and gang-codes (Video)
- Nipsey Hussle on how unfair gang injunctions are and being from Rollin 60 (Video)
- Nipsey Hussle Explains How Gang Injunctions Destroy Communities (Video)
- Rest In Power, Neighborhood Nip by Panama Jackson
- Code of Thug Life is Needed Today, Street Politics, Tribalism, Snitching by Haki Kweli Shakur (Video):
- Bastards of the Party, 2005 (Video)
- Code of THUG LIFE by Mutulu and Tupac Shakur
- Let’s “Gang” Up On Oppression: Youth Organizations and the Struggle for Power in Oppressed Communities by Owusu Yaki Yakubu, aka Atiba Shanna or James Yaki Sayles
- Liberation or Gangsterism: Freedom or Slavery by Russell Maroon Shoatz
- On Transforming the Colonial and “Criminal” Mentality by Owusu Yaki Yakubu
- From Kody Scott to Monster to Sanyika Shakur: The Life and Transformation of an LA Gang Member
- An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle by Sundiata Acoli
- California Prisoners Make Historic Call for Peace between Racial Groups in California Prisons & Jails, 2013 from Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
- Prisons, gangs, witchhunts and white supremacy by Steve Martinot
- Economics of Prison Gangs (Video from a bourgeois academic perspective, so take aspects of this with a grain of salt)
- Ganging Up on Oppression by Saleem/One Hood United
- Baltimore Bloods, Crips: We Don’t Need Police, We Protect Our Own (Video)
- No More Excuses, Time to Organize in the Ghetto by Bao Yun Cheng
- Peace in the Hood to Fight Our Oppressors
- How the Gangs of 1970s New York Came Together to End Their Wars by John Surico
- Today in Hip Hop History: The Historic Truce Between the Bloods and Crips in L.A. 1992 by Curt Cramer
Servius G. is a member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra in Providence, RI.